Anacardiaceae FAMILY

Lannea fruticosa

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Lannea fruticosa is a shrub or small tree, it can grow from 3 - 12 metres tall[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, timber and source of gum.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - sub-Saharan areas of Niger and Nigeria, to northern Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda.

HabitatWooded grassland; rocky hillsides; sometimes on black cotton soils; sandy hollows; with Commiphora africana on hill screes; woodland with Terminalia brownei, Combretum adenogonium, Acacia seyal; river valleys; at elevations from 300 - 2,300 metres[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ].